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A Study Of Job Satisfaction Of Small Market Radio Station Managers, Lawrence William Etling

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This thesis studied job satisfaction of small market radio station managers in North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota, and Eastern Montana. Thirty-three managers were surveyed by mail questionnaires, telephone interviews, and personal interviews.

The data were used to answer twelve questions regarding factors relating to managerial job satisfaction. From those questions asked, the most significant conclusions drawn were: 1. Factors which probably relate to managerial job satisfaction in small radio stations are: making full use of one’s managerial abilities; exercise of authority; dealing with a variety of job challenges; salary; and using one’s own judgment. 2. Factors which probably do not relate …

Caffeine And Free Recall, George Erikson

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Caffeine is said to increase alertness and improve attention. However, the research which has examined the relationship between caffeine and attention has been atheoretical with respect to current theories of information processing. Therefore, the specific aspects of information processing that caffeine influences cannot be ascertained by the existing data. The purpose of the existing study was to examine the effect of caffeine on memory performance using a task that has theoretically and empirically discernable component processes. Specifically, the present study assessed whether caffeine selectively influences short or long term memory by examining subjects' immediate memory for word lists (cf. Glanzer …

Atmospheric Emissions From A Gasifier Wastewater Fed Cooling Tower, Sheila J. Galegher

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Atmospheric emissions from a gasifier wastewater fed cooling tower were studied to determine their environmental effects and their contributions to single-component cooling tower mass balances. The feasibility of using a multicyclone device to separate cooling tower drift from evaporate was also investigated, as was the applicability of sensitive paper and isokinetic tube drift measurement. Data was collected during the operation of a pilot scale cooling tower at the University of North Dakota Energy Research Center. This forced-draft counter flow tower was fed with minimally treated wastewater generated in slagging fixed-bed gasification of lignite, and operated at ten cycles of concentration. …

A Profile Of Supervisors Of University Clinical Practicum And Their Attitudes Toward Specific Activities Involved In The Observation And Feedback Conference Phases Of The Clinical Supervision Process, Kathryn Gay Flaat

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The general purposes of this study were to determine specific characteristics of supervisors of university clinical practicum, to survey their attitudes toward engaging in particular supervisory activities, and to examine the relationships between these characteristics and attitudes.

One hundred fifty-two supervisors of university clinical practicum (89.4 percent of the questionnaires mailed out) completed and returned the questionnaires.

The results of this study revealed that the typical supervisor of university clinical practicum is a female, thirty-eight years of age, who has held her current title of assistant professor for 4.6 years. She is not employed in a tenure-track position and is …

A Comparison Of Perceptions Of Selected Germanic Executives To Determine If Case-Study Analysis Education Affects Their Decision-Making Process, Richard L. Painchaud

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Problem. The problem of this study was to determine if case-study analysis education was perceived to affect top-level executives in making operating decisions without favoring any of the twenty-two selected influences.

The term selected influences was adopted to represent the twenty-two inputs or variables that were selected as modifiers in the managerial decision-making process. These inputs to decision-making represent many of the functional, social and cultural areas influencing daily life.

Procedures. The study was conducted between September 1983 and February 1984 in the Vienna, Austria (Europe) area.

Seventy-seven top-level executives holding the position of Generaldirektor, Vorstandes, Geschaftsfuhrer, Minister, or Ambassador …

Martin Buber's Concept Of Mutuality And Its Potential Implications For The Teaching Of Music, I. Gladys Krueger

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The purpose of this study is to identify and examine Martin Buber's concept of mutuality with implications for the teaching of music. Three major Buberian suppositions are discussed in relation to the musical learning process that occurs within the child: (1) Mutuality between the teacher and the child, (2) Buber's thought on creativity and its teleological potential for the education of the whole child, and (3) the dualism that is inherent within the responsibility of freedom. Integrative within these suppositions are the concepts of confidence, the instinct of power, the instinct of Eros, the originator instinct, the instinct of communion, …

The Role Of Symbolic Form In The Bedtime Nature Stories Of Thornton W. Burgess, Ronald A. Royer

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The task of this research is to examine the epistemological premises inherent in Thornton W. Burgess' nature stories for children as defined by Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. Its purpose is to identify these premises, examine them in light of Cassirer's philosophy, and explore their relevance to education theory.

Burgess holds that children are characterized by their potentiality, that their interest in animals is inherent, that they instinctively sense themselves superior to animals, and that for these reasons it is possible to convey any lesson to the child through the medium of a fact-based animal story.

During the course …

A Comparative Evaluation Of The Rental Assistance Programs Created By Section "8" Of The Housing And Urban Development Act Of 1974, Lynn A. Bingham

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No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Dimensions Of Congressional Voting: The Case For Foreign Aid, Donald R. Morrison

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The major focus of this paper concerns defining congressional issue dimensions towards the American foreign assistance programs of 1979 to 1982. The resulting dimensions serve as a foundation to identify coalitions of congressmen who support or oppose different aspects of foreign aid policies. Previous foreign aid vote studies have usually divided congressmen into pro and con camps or placed them along activist-restrained continuums. This study, however, is based on the assumption that foreign aid policy has become too complex for such divisions and that its dimensions center more around the types of aid, the purposes of aid, and the ideological …

The Relationships Among Performance Ratings, Job Satisfaction Perceptions, And Preferred Non-Monetary Rewards For Elementary School Teachers, Beth Stangeland Randklev

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there was a relationship among job satisfaction, preferred rewards, perceptions of teachers' performance, and selected demographic variables for elementary classroom teachers in North Dakota and Minnesota. Eighty-five teachers from seven selected elementary schools comprised the sample.

Data were gathered by employing the following instruments: the Teacher Performance Assessment Instrument (TPAI), the Job Descriptive Index (JDI), and a preferred rewards instrument designed by the researcher to measure the desirability and availability of various rewards. Teachers also completed a demographic information sheet which was used in the data analysis.

The analysis …

Dedalus And Icarus: The Influence Of James Joyce On The Poetry Of Hart Crane, Ayman F. B. Hussein

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This dissertation is a pioneer study of the influence of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses on Hart Crane's White Buildings. As such, it is both an influence study and a close reading of Crane's finest poems in a new light.

The first part of the essay (the introduction and the first three chapters) tackles the question of influence, the authors who helped shape Crane's literary make-up, and the extent and limitations of these influences as compared to the thorough-going influence Joyce exerted on Crane. In those chapters I examine the role played …

Rheological Study Of A Direct Liquefaction Feed Slurry, Dennis L. Laudal

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A rheological study was made of a liquefaction startup- feed slurry. The slurry consisted of North Dakota lignite sized to 70% less then 200 mesh and a carrier solvent of an thracene oil. The rheological behavior of the slurries, o with coal concentrations of 0 to 40% at 40 C, was shown to be Newtonian, allowing Bernoulli's equation to be used for direct calculation of pressure drop. Calculated values pre dicted the measured data within 10% for the test conditions.

The investigation used an experimental slurry loop, con sisting of a bank of pipes with nominal sizes ranging from 1 …

The Communication Component Of Accounting, Terri B. Clark

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No abstract provided.

An Investigation Into Isokinetic Normative Data Of The Quadriceps And Hamstrings Muscles Of Males And Females, Ages 36 Through 40, Renee L. Rud Mabey

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Isokinteic exercise is a valid, reliable, and objective method of evaluating and improving muscle fitness. It is utilized in rehabiltation, athletics, and research. A common isokinetic tool is the Cybex II Isokinetic System.

To be of maximal value, an instrument requires normative data specific to the population it was designed to test and train. This study establishes (selected) normative data for the quadriceps and hamstrings muscles of males and females ages 36 through 40.

Sixty adults, meeting specific age, medical, and activity requirements were tested on the Cybex II System. Reciprocal contractions of the quadriceps and hamstrings were performed at …

The Audit Report, Victoria Beard

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The Compatibility Of Management Advisory Services And Audit Independence, Nancy J. Anderson

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Audit Sampling: Statistical Versus Nonstatistical, Boyd L. Binde

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The Impact Of The Mormon Migration On The Community Of Kirtland, Ohio, 1830-1839, Mark R. Grandstaff

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In the early decades of the nineteenth-century, an era of cultural change and disorientation, many turned to revivals to displace insecure emotionalism and to insure themselves of a place in the emerging society. Others, such as the Mormons sought an all encompassing plan that would dispel confusion and restore order to a decadent society. This search led some Mormons to follow their Prophet to Kirtland, Ohio. Once in Kirtland, various sociological conflicts developed which affected how the citizens of Kirtland would perceive their Mormon neighbors. Tantamount to these conflicts was the rapidly increasing Mormon population which triggered a corresponding rise …

A Conceptual Analysis Of The Fasb's Preliminary Views On Employers Accounting For Pensions, Steven Gustafson

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Edp And Accounting: Managing With The Micro Computer, Victoria Sue Mazone

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The Nonconformists Of Leeds In The Early Victorian Era: A Study In Social Composition, Susan L. Fales

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This thesis examined the Nonconformist denominational membership in the Borough of Leeds during the early Victorian era to determine the social composition of its members. The chapel goers of Old Dissent, represented by the Unitarians, Baptists, Independents, and the Society of Friends, and New Dissent, represented by the Wesleyan Methodists, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodists and the Mormons were the basis for this study. The results of the occupational, residential, family, and migration analysis revealed a surprisingly high percentage of working classes (72) represented among the Dissenters. This fact flys in the face of contemporary observation and historical investigation, which …

Radicals And Immigrants: Senator William H. King's Response To Nativism, 1917-1924, Craig D. Galli

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When Senator William Henry King took office in 1917, Utah and the nation were apprehensive about the presence of large numbers of foreign born aliens and citizens. Utah's King joined the wartime hysteria and promoted many nativistic policies directed against the foreign born population. During the post-war Red Scare he continued his crusade, concentrating on the suppression of Bolsheviks and the Industrial Workers of the World.

But when Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924--a nativistic law designed to curtail the immigration of southern and eastern Europeans--King was the bill's only opponent from the West or South. Since anti-radicalism and …

Effects Of N-Substituents On The Polymerization Properties Of Maleimide, Dilip R. Abayasekara

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The effect of the amide function and the carbethoxy function on the polymerization properties of maleimide are reported. The effects of these functions on homopolymerization and copolymerization (with styrene) were examined. These electron-withdrawing groups appeared to decrease the rate of homopolymerization and increase the rate of copolymerization.

N-carbamylmaleimide and N-carbethoxymaleimide were copolymerized with styrene in 1,4 -dioxane at 60.0° C at different feed ratios to high conversion. Copolymer composition, determined by elemental analysis and 1H NMR, indicated that while 1:1 copolymers were obtained with an equimolar feed ratio, the two systems were not alternating. It is of note that the …

National Certification As A Performance Measure: Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 1977-1982, Barbara Hall Dunn

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This research involved an analysis of data for 3,387 candidates who took the National Qualifying Examination for pediatric nurse practitioners/associates between 1977 and 1982. Those data were available from the National Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Associates, which administers the examination, and its testing agency, the National Board of Medical Examiners. Included in the data were sociodemographic characteristics of examinees, characteristics of their nurse practitioner educational programs, and their composite examination scores.

The purpose of the research was to determine the ability of these sociodemographic and educational program variables to predict examination performance. Sociodemographic variables included: examinee age; highest …

Relations Between Parents' Expressive And Instrumental Traits And Expectations And Several Early Adolescent Outcomes, Grayson N. Holmbeck

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The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine the degree to which parents' instrumental and expressive expectations are predicted by their instrumental and expressive personality characteristics, (2) to determine the degree to which these parental trait and expectation variables predict several selected early adolescent outcomes, and (3) to examine differences between the findings for sons and the findings for daughters.

The subjects were 174 seventh-grade girls and 103 seventh-grade boys and their mothers and fathers. All members of these triads filled out questionnaires and participated in interaction sessions. Data from the parental and child expectations Q-Sort, parental responses to …

A Description Of The Theatre Curriculum At Hopewell High School, Don P. Mcmillan

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The theatre curriculum at Hopewell High School began eleven years ago with one course; it now has expanded to three courses. Because the last course in the sequence may be repeated for credit, a student in this curriculum may earn four credits in theatre study.

The first course is English 124, entitled Drama I, and it may be taken by students in grades 9 through 12. This course introduces the student to performing in pantomime, improvisation, and in scripted scenes. The second course is English 125, entitled Drama II, which is open to students in grades 10 through 12 who …

An Interactional/Social Psychological Approach To Defiance And Therapeutic Paradox, Glenn Thomas Gould

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This study tested the general hypothesis that a client's compliance or defiance of a therapeutic directive could be accurately predicted by manipulating the variables of incongruence and dependency within the client-counselor relationship. An attempt to control the relationship variables was made by using a no-choice, paradoxical directive to increase levels of relationship incongruence. The manipulation of the client's perception of their counselor's level of experience and expertness was aimed at controlling the dependency variables. The hypothesis that clients would report improvement of their symptom, following the delivery of a paradoxical directive, was also investigated.

The subjects of the study were …

The Developing Trends And Their Perceived Impact Upon Minnesota Post-Secondary Vocational-Technical Education (Future, Change, Training)., Keith Mel Togstad

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The problem of the study was to determine the perceived degree of impact of selected technological, economic, programmatic, legislative, and sociological trends which could affect post-secondary vocational-technical education in Minnesota.The purpose of this study was to provide information useful to Minnesota post-secondary vocational-technical educators in planning the direction of post-secondary vocational-technical education in the State for the next decade. This purpose was accomplished through a survey which emphasized the perceived degree of need and the perception of degree of impact on post-secondary vocational-technical curricula from selected technological, economic, programmatic, legislative, and sociological trends.A primary concern in the survey was to …

Perceptions Of Women Administrators In Higher Education In The Upper Midwest As To The Constraints To Career Advancement For Women And The Skills And Characteristics Necessary To Overcome Those Constraints., Williams Robyne Carol Willoner

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The literature suggests that women have been under-utilized in higher education administration. This study was designed to determine what selected women holding an administrative position of President or Chancellor, Vice President, Dean of an Academic College, or Dean of Students in an Upper Midwest public four-year institution of higher education perceived to be: (1) Significant constraints to career advancement in administration for women in general and in their own career in regard to training and experience; intra-institutional processes, procedures, and attitudes; extra-institutional processes, procedures, and attitudes; and self-imposed factors or behaviors. (2) Some of the skills and characteristics necessary to …

Endocrine Dysfunction In Primary Depressive Disorders In The Mentally Retarded And Its Behavioral Correlates., Douglas Joseph Pawlarczyk

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Melancholia or severe depression is a poorly explored phenomenon within mentally retarded populations. Traditional self-report measures of depression are of limited utility for most mentally retarded individuals. Data from a biological test for depression, the dexamethasone suppression test (DST), in conjunction with data from behavioral rating scales, may provide a more reliable means of delineating the nature of severe depression in mentally retarded individuals.Seven hundred and sixteen of the 810 residents of a large institution for mentally retarded individuals were rated by attendants for various characteristics of severe depression. On the basis of these ratings and the absence of other …